Fealy v. Bull
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, John Bull, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Madison Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Cortland on the 28tli day of April, 1896, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon a case and exceptions and affidavits, the jury in the action having rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiff after a trial at the Cortland Circuit on the 8th day of January, 1894.
1Opinion of the Court
Merwin, J.:
One of the grounds upon which the defendant sought for a new trial was the misconduct of one of the jurors. It was shown by affidavits on the part of the defendant, and not denied on the part of the plaintiff, that Mr. Forshee, one of the jurors who sat in the case, was, upon his examination by the counsel for the defendant, before his acceptance as a juror, asked the question whether he ever had any business relations with either of. the counsel or the attorney for the plaintiff in the action, and the juror answered that he had not. It was also shown that in April, 1891, in the…
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